US Patent Issued to Block on Sept. 1 for "Server-based order persistence and/or fulfillment" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,140, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Server-based order persistence and/or fulfillment" was invented by Christopher Woodyard (Hoboken, N.J.), Brad Seiler (New York), Roshan Jhunja (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Noah Batterson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sever-based order persistence and/or fulfillment is described herein. In an example, server(s) associated with a payment processing service may receive, from a point-of-sale (POS) device associated with a merchant, an order associated with at least one item available for purchase from a physical location of the merchant. The server(s) may st...